My whole religion is this: do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter.

To abandon the struggle for private happiness, to expel all eagerness of temporary desire, to burn with passion for eternal things-this is emancipation, and this is the free man's worship... United with his fellow men by the strongest of all ties, the tie of a common doom, the free man finds that a new vision is with him always, shedding over every daily task the light of love.

Self-respect will keep a man from being abject when he is in the power of enemies, and will enable him to feel that he may be in the right when the world is against him.

We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit. - Octavio Paz The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Insight, untested and unsupported, is an uncertain guarantee of the truth.

Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself.

In the ordinary business of life punctuality is . . . necessary.